During those long summer months a lonely wife goes about her household duties down in Gloucester town. There is a weight upon her heart, and until the fleet comes in and she sees the familiar face at the front gate, happiness is not for her. Day after day she listens for his footsteps, and after supper, when the season draws to a close, she walks down to where she can look far out to sea.
Then a schooner, heavy laden, appears around the Point. She comes around and moves up the harbor slowly,—oh, so slowly. The flag the wife has seen is half-masted, and she knows that some woman’s heart is to break. Will it be hers?
THE END.
By Sydney George Fisher
Men, Women, and Manners in Colonial Times.
Illustrated with four photogravures and numerous head and tail sketches in each volume. Two volumes. Satine, in a box, $3.00; half calf or half morocco, $6.00.
SECOND EDITION.
“The author’s work is a blending of grave history, amusing anecdote, extracts from diaries, and graphic word pictures. He has an admirable knack of liveliness that is quite Frenchy, and stimulates the reader into a ravenous delight. Puritan, Pilgrim, Cavalier, Quaker, and Catholic are made to re-enact their Colonial parts, and the resulting drama is full of action, humor, wit, and pathos.”—Boston Globe.
“These two volumes, in delicately colored satine, are fascinating in their panoramic view of a whole era that abounds in picturesque and diverting incident. Discretion and taste were required in the selection, and literary art in the presentation. These are revealed by Mr. Fisher, and the result is social history in the most engaging style.”—Philadelphia Press.